Several historical and contemporary examples involving the relationship between alcohol use and the commission of atrocities can be identified. During the Second World War, for instance, alcohol was supplied to men of ...

Prisoner re-entry literature has primarily been framed as a problem that affects all types of ex-offenders, regardless of race. Surprisingly, the issue of race has been ignored in most of the literature on prisoner re-entry. ...

This book deals with the double jeopardy rule, namely the practice of multiple characterisation of the same facts, under different headings, in international criminal law. Such practice is problematic, due to the fact that ...

Since the Nuremberg trials of 1945, the classification of men and women who commit atrocities in time of war has been a subject of bafflement. Attempts to explain this phenomenon have largely relied on various abnormality ...

Seeking a middle ground between the realist school thought, that the biggest gun makes the rules, and the idealist school, that national governments can pursue common interests, Olusanya (law, U. of Wales-Aberystwyth) sets ...

After all, it appears to make no difference to the victim whether offences such as murder, torture, or imprisonment, are committed as war crimes or as crimes against humanity. Instead, what seems to be more important is ...

At present very little knowledge exists about individual differences in susceptibility to PTSD following combat trauma. Two differing perspectives have emerged. Some researchers maintain that a distinct linear dose-response ...